January 2008 Archives

Just outside Delta House (developed by Islington & Shoreditch HA) on the corner of Provost and Vestry Streets in Hackney is this piece of street art...

...which is just down the road from the wonderfully named British Empire Pipe Company on 8-11 Westland Place...

...which is next door to 15 Westland Place.

Name: The Queue.
Sculptor: Graeme Mitcheson.
Client: London Borough of Havering.
Scheme Link: Eldon Court (part of the S106 payment).
Cost: £10,000.
Councillor Mike Winters' Comments: "...that could have paid for a Zebra crossing".
Snooker Legend Who Will Officially Unveil the Sculpture: Steve Davis.
Snooker Related Scheme Rumour: Snooker agent Barry Hearn may be moving back to this site.
Most Bizarre Public Comment: "...it seems like the sort of thing you would see in Liverpool...except they had the Beatles".

Good news for people who exercised their right to buy on the Grahame Park Estate in Barnet, their homes are about to be demolished. Ok so that's not such great news, but the compensation package (as detailed in the Grahame Park Newsletter) is:

"Owner occupiers will get compensation equal to the market value of their homes plus 10% (an extra £10,000 to £20,000 on top of the value of their home), and have been offered the chance to buy a newly built home in Phase 1a of the development." Together with..."home loss and disturbance payments".

And it's not too bad for the council tenants either...They get "compensation (currently £4,400) plus removal expenses".

This curious little structure is the only thing that's recently been constructed ...

...on the long vacant Pembroke Properties site, London Millharbour in Docklands.

I think it's a sample of materials to be used in a future development. The scheme's got an old consent for B1 but may go resi. The sampler looks like a bit of both to me. Odd.

Look carefully at the centre of the map below, particularly at the area between Devons Road and All Saints DLR, because there's something missing...

...and that something is this:

Designed by Consarc Architects this is not street art, or part of an office or residential development, this is the brand new, £7.5 m Langdon Park DLR which opened its glass doors for business on the 12th of December last year.

The signature "surf board" (still amazingly graffiti-free) canopy was pre fabricated on the Isle of White, and at night, it glows in the dark. No doubt this will be a comfort to future residents of the two adjoining sites to the north, which are poised to deliver around 430 flats (154 from the Tiffany Assets site and a whopping 276 from The Group 4 site).

The Deepcut army barracks in Surrey are to be closed and handed over to the local authority for residential development.